Droll Stories Gustave Dore

Excerpt from Droll Stories: Collected From the Abbeys of Touraine

When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publisher"s name, replied Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Droll Stories (Gustave Dore)